The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
